negation

The act or process of negating.

A denial, contradiction, or negative statement.

The opposite or absence of something regarded as actual, positive, or affirmative.

The act of denying or of negativing; the opposite of the act of affirming.

A denial; a declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be.

The absence of that which is positive or affirmative; blankness; emptiness.

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; — the opposite of affirmation.

Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.

The act of negating something.

A denial or contradiction.